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No. 430,262. Patented June 17, 1890.-

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UNITEDY STATES PATENT OEEICE.y

PETER N. BARDO AND THOMAS FORD, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY; ASSIGNORS TO THE BOURBON COPPER AND BRASS VORKS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

H Y D RA NT SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,262, dated J une 17,1890.

Application filed July 18, 1889. Serial No. 317,865. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.- or leat'her packing that bears against the inp Be it known that We, PETER N. BARDO and ner side of the uprightd of the arch. When THOMAS FORD, citizens of the United States, the valve H is opened, the valve L is lowered residing at Newport, in the county of Campand closes the waste-vent e, which is a tube bell and State of VKentucky, have jointly ininserted through the upright d and waste- 55 ve-nted certain new and useful Improvements chamber C, just above the ring K, and when in Hydrants, of which the following is a'full, the valve H is closed the valve L is raised to clear, and exact description, reference being uncover the Vent e and permit the escape of had to the accompanying drawings, forming the water withinthe body of the hydrant and 1o part of this specification. the waste-chamber. 60

Our invention relates to that class of hy-. In the construction of the hydrant shown drants generally known as lire-plugs or in our former patent the valve-chamber was street-washers,andhasvfor its object theimmade cylindrical, and 'was fitted within the provement in the construction and eflciency lower end of the waste-chamber, and the of operation of this class of hydrants. It is, waste-valve was made circular and fitted 65 moreover, an improvement upon Patent No. within the valve-chamber; but as the sedi- 365,896, issued to us July 5, 1887. ment in the water would settle betweenl the The novelty of our invention will be herewalls of the two chambers the removal of the inafter set forth, and specifically pointed out valve-chamber was apt to be rendered didizo in the claim. cult, Y or even impossible; hence We have 7o In the accompanying drawings, Figurel is omittedV the wall of the valve-chamber ena longitudinal section in elevation of a hytirely, and only left the ring K, which can be drant containing our invention and With the removed very easily, as it never is aifected valve closed. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan View by the deposit of sediment owing to the screwof the valve-seat and arch. Fig. 3 is an enthreads; but when the walls of the .valve- 75 larged plan view of the waste-valve. chamber were omitted there was no support The same letters of reference are used to or guide to keep the lower end of the valveindicate identical parts in all the figures. rod in the center of the ring in order to prop- With the exceptions to be pointedout, the erly guide to two valves. To obviate this 3o construction may be substantially that of the difficulty resort was had to the arch M, hav- 8o patent above referred to, and it is only necesing an opening b for the passage of the sary here to state that A is the cap, B the valve-rod G. The omission of the wall also. body, C the waste-chamber,D the valve chamremoved the vent e, except it be located in ber or shoe, E the frost-jacket, F the nozzle, one of the uprights of the arch, which afforded G the valve-rod, H the valve, I the upper a smooth vertical surface against which the 85 guide forthe valve-rod, and J the sand-guard. waste-valve could be moved without catch- Screwed into the lower end of the wasteing. upon any sharp edges or corners, as chamber C is the valve-seat for the valve H, would happen if the Vent were placed in the consisting of a ring K, with its inner lower ring at any other point than in line with one 4o edge beveled and its outer lower edge flanged, of the uprights. By placing the vent near 9o as shown at a, Fig. 2. Extending up from the lower end of one of the uprights and centhe ring K, and preferably integral with it, tering the valve-rod by the arch the necessity is an arch M, with a perforation b through its of a circular form of Waste-valve was avoided, top cross-piece for the passage of the valveand only a segment or portion of acircle was rod G, which fits snugly therein, and is guided required to contain the packing and move it 95 thereby at its lower end. Secured upon the over and -away from the vent. Besides rerod G, beneath the cross-piece of the arch, ducing the weight and cost of the valve by and preferably by a set-screw c, so as to renthis construction, the friction was also reder it adjustable, is the waste-valve L, whose duced from that of a large circular band to 5o outer surface is recessed to receive a rubber only a mere fraction of it, and by arranging 100 the valve in a vertical line with the arch any lateral pressure upon the valve-rod by the Valve is taken up by the entire arch and a very secure support is obtained.

Still another advantagesecured by placing the waste-vent above the ring, instead of within it, is that the iiow of water is not checked to so great an extent as it would be if the valve came entirely down into the ring, and it alsol permits of a wider waste-valve being used, which can be so arranged that when the main Valve is seated the lower edge ofthe waste-valve is just above the vent. `In this position the Waste-vent is closed as soon as the main valve moves downward the distance of the diameter of the vent, which can be made very small, and it remains closed until the main valve returns to that point in closing, thus reducing the waste, while the main valve is open to the minimum, which is an important consideration in large cities, and especially during hot dry weather, when considerable water is being used. It also permits of the hydrant being used with less than a full head without letting water escape at the Vent all the time, which could not be done if the Ivent were placed within the ring, and by making the valve segmental instead of circular ythe obstruction to'the flow of the water through the hydrant is reduced to the very lowest point, which, with the other advantages, makes it a very eficient device in everyy respect.

Another change from the construction shown in our former patent consists in leaving a space. between the outer surface of the upright and the inner surface of the wall of the Waste-chamber to avoid the possibility of the uprights from engaging with any sediment which might be within the waste-chamber, and thus interfering with the free rotation of the ring and the arch in their removal;

` but this change necessitated the use of a tube Athe waste-chamber could not be closed by the waste-valve. With a tube inserted within the holes, however, a continuous passage from the interior of the valve-chamber to the outside of the 'waste-chamber is formed, andthe valve will close it in the same manner as was done heretofore.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim- In ahydrant, the combination, with a wastechamber having a hole or waste-vent near its lower end, ,of a valve-ring in its lower end having an arch projecting up into the chamber, the outer faces ot' the uprights of which arch are at a distance from the inner face of the wall of the waste-chamber, and one of the uprights being also provided with a hole or waste-vent near its lower end above the ring, a tube removably secured within the said holes leading from the interior of the arch to the exterior of the Waste-chamber, a non-rotatable Valverod through the arch having a main valve on its lower end, and a segmental waste-valve on the rod within the arch, the outer face of which is vertically movable against the inner face of the upright having the waste-vent, substantially as described.

PETER N. BARDO. THOMAS FORD. Witnesses:

CHARLES BILLoN, W. C. J IRDINsToN. 

